Sauber Racing Director Xevi Pujolar has maintained faith in his team’s development progress this season as he has assured upgrades are in the pipeline. After 9 Grands Prix and 2 Sprints in 2024, Sauber has not scored a single point in the championship. Alpine has overtaken them in the development race since Bahrain, leaving them…
Valtteri Bottas, who has 10 race wins and 67 podiums to his name in F1, has been having a dismal season. The 34-year-old is driving well but does not have the car to deliver big results. The 2024 season has been particularly difficult since the Finn is yet to score a point. That continued in…
Sauber F1’s racing director Xevi Pujolar spoke post-race after Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix about why the team’s Chinese racer Zhou Guanyu is struggling so much with the C44 compared to teammate Valtteri Bottas. Everyone knows that in motorsport, the first target a driver must achieve is being able to beat his teammate. Valtteri Bottas and…
Following a double Q1 elimination on Saturday, Sauber decided to roll the dice and change the rear wings on both cars, starting from pit lane in the Canadian Grand Prix. In reality, Valtteri Bottas was the one who was likely to do anything with it. Zhou Guanyu crashed twice in practice, and he simply had…
Sauber’s Zhou Guanyu endured another weekend without scoring any points. He and teammate Valtteri Bottas were knocked out in the Q1 heading into Sunday’s race, with the Chinese driver slowest of all and almost a second off the pace of the Finn. The team made a tactical decision to change both of their rear wings…
Valtteri Bottas saw himself exiting qualifying in Q1 for the sixth time in 2024 in Montreal, his best lap only putting him in 17th. The Sauber driver has not made a Q2 session since the Chinese Grand Prix, where he got through to Q3 and qualified in 10th. The Finnish driver felt as though he…
Carlos Sainz is undoubtedly the hottest topic on the Formula 1 drivers’ market since it was announced that Lewis Hamilton is taking his seat at Ferrari next year. However, the options he seemed to have at the start of the season are slowly slipping through his fingers, with Sergio Perez securing a two-year contract extension…
It has not been a positive 2024 so far for Sauber’s Zhou Guanyu. After starting off the season strongly achieving his best result, an eleventh place in Bahrain, a number of races have been marred by pit stop issues, as well as a gearbox problem which forced the 25-year-old to retire in Japan. The Chinese…
Carlos Sainz used media day in Canada to clarify all of the rumours and set the record straight regarding his future in Formula 1 as the Canadian Grand Prix approaches this weekend. The Ferrari driver shared insights as he navigates his future in the sport. After Sergio Perez made his decision to stay at Red…
As the 2024 Formula 1 season progresses, Valtteri Bottas finds himself at a crucial juncture in his career. With numerous seats filling up for the 2025 season, the Finnish driver is feeling the pressure to decide about his future sooner rather than later. When asked about his plans, Bottas emphasised the need for a swift…
